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State of JavaScript 2024

Front-end Frameworks

Front-end frameworks and libraries

Front-end Frameworks Ratios Over Time

Last year's big story was Vue overtaking Angular in raw usage among our respondents. Despite Angular's progress this year, Vue managed to keep its number two spot – as well a gain a whopping three spots in terms of retention percentage! Meanwhile, Svelte usage is increasing at a steady pace, while it continues to top the rankings in terms of overall positive opinions.

React
Vue.js
Angular
Preact
Svelte
Alpine.js
Lit
Solid
Qwik
Stencil
HTMX

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40%
60%
80%
100%
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
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40%
60%
80%
100%

Other Front-end Frameworks

0%
11%
22%
33%
44%
55%
1

190
2

62
3

30
4

27
5

27
6

24
7

16
8

14
9

13
10

13
11

Other Answers

344
0%
11%
22%
33%
44%
55%
% of question respondents
619
4%

Used at Work

While there are no substantial income differences based on which frontend frameworks respondents used at work, company size tells a different story.

New challengers Alpine.js, Qwik, and Solid are being favored by small companies, while Web Components solutions Lit and Stencil are overwhelmingly used by large companies.

0%
13%
27%
40%
53%
67%
1

8,345
2

3,870
3

3,534
4

1,380
5

538
6

475
7

376
8

331
9

304
10

229
11

127
12

🚫 None

444
0%
13%
27%
40%
53%
67%
% of question respondents
12,486
91%
Which of these tools do you use in a professional context?
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2024 Pick: Cassidy Williams

Cassidy's been writing on her blog since 2009, has an incredibly unique style and so many cool, niche interests (I'm proud to own her StackOverflow copy/paste keyboard!). She puts out a great newsletter every week, makes the best developer memes, and does it all while being a new mom, which is beyond impressive.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

Tania Rascia

Self-taught principal engineer, accomplished tech blogger, and professionally trained chef

Number of Items

How many items in this category respondends have used (or heard of).

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5%
11%
16%
22%
27%
1

0

1,108
2

1

2,904
3

2

3,827
4

3

3,070
5

4

1,653
6

5

796
7

6

342
8

7

182
9

8

66
10

9

37
11

10

16
12

11

14
0%
5%
11%
16%
22%
27%
% of survey respondents
2.5

Front-end Frameworks Happiness

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4
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
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2
3
4
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12,964
93%
2.8
3
How happy are you with the current state of front-end frameworks?

Front-end Frameworks Pain Points

As the incumbent, React has to bear the cross of being the target of most complaints.

Excessive complexity, choice overload, poor performance, and breaking changes were also commonly cited as major pain points.

0%
18%
36%
54%
73%
91%
1

React issues

2

Excessive complexity

3

Performance

4

Choice overload

5

Breaking changes

6

State management

7

Speed of change

8

Dependencies

9

SSR

10

Angular issues

0%
18%
36%
54%
73%
91%
% of question respondents
3,832
27%
What pain points have you encountered when using front-end frameworks?
(freeform question)

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